Chapter Summaries

After the Beast Tide ended, Gu Yang reunited with his family and prepared to leave Wan City for Canglong Island with them and Qin Hu. They reached Outpost Island, where Gu Dashan and the rest of the family began settling into their new life.

• Qin Hu thanked Gu Yang for pleading with King Qin and revealed that he had condensed a Martial Dao Golden Body, allowing him to return to Canglong Island and pursue the Longevity Realm.
• Chai Yunqing rushed to Qin Hu, embraced him in relief, and later set off with him after they confirmed their relationship.
• Gu Yang returned home, reassured Gu Dashan, Gu Mother, and Gu Yingying that Wan City was safe, and spent three days meeting old acquaintances and visitors.
• Gu Yang led his family and Qin Hu aboard a flying ship and left Wan City for Canglong Island as the city's higher-ups came to see them off.
• After arriving at the Azure Dragon River, the group took a connecting ship to Outpost Island, where Gu Yang arranged for his family to settle.

After returning to Canglong Island, Gu Yang received a hundred thousand Contribution Points and the Time Jade Pendant from Qin Wujiu, who warned that the Alien Race might target him if he left the island. Gu Yang entered the River Bottom Secret Ground to cultivate, where he learned he could stay for thirty days.

• Gu Yang returned to River Heart Island after ensuring his family had settled on Outpost Island, then met Qin Wujiu with Helian Feng.
• Qin Wujiu awarded Gu Yang a hundred thousand Contribution Points and granted him access to the Time Jade Pendant’s time-accelerating Secret Ground.
• Qin Wujiu warned Gu Yang that the Alien Race might send Longevity Realm cultivators to assassinate him if he left Canglong Island without enough strength.
• Gu Yang told Helian Feng about the assassination threat and his fears for his family, and Helian Feng assured him that Canglong Island protected its Outpost Islands.
• After resting, Gu Yang used the Time Jade Pendant to enter the River Bottom Secret Ground and began cultivating the Fish Dragon Transformation.
• A voice told Gu Yang that he could remain in the Secret Ground for thirty days.

Gu Yang perfected the Fish Dragon Transformation in the Secret Ground at the River Bottom and manifested the Indestructible Body, a powerful golden-jade constitution. After a month inside the secret ground, he was sent back to Canglong Island, where he began testing his greatly increased strength.

• Gu Yang cultivated the Fish Dragon Transformation for half a month in the secret ground and reached its perfected realm, transforming his bones into jade.
• Potential Development completed and manifested the Indestructible Body, which strengthened Gu Yang’s body, defenses, vitality, and recovery.
• Gu Yang checked his updated skills and talents, then spent the remaining time cultivating the Azure Dragon Force.
• After three days outside had passed, the secret ground forcibly transported Gu Yang back to his bedroom on the river-center island.
• Gu Yang lightly punched the air and shattered a fine-timber window with the force of the resulting gust.

Gu Yang began cultivating the Jingzhe Art, tempering all five viscera in a single cycle and discovering that the process was extremely slow. After taking the Five Viscera Purification Liquid recommended by Helian Feng, he completed another cycle much faster and planned to enter secluded cultivation once his body recovered.

• Gu Yang exchanged for and memorized the Jingzhe Art manual, then began its dangerous five-viscera cultivation on River Heart Island.
• Gu Yang completed his first cycle of viscera tempering, reached Entry Level in the Jingzhe Art, and found that the cycle had taken nearly a day.
• Gu Yang drank the Five Viscera Purification Liquid Helian Feng had recommended and used its effects to begin another cycle.
• Gu Yang completed the second cycle in three hours and planned to enter the Secret Ground at the River Bottom after his body’s cooldown period ended.

Gu Yang spent a month cultivating in the Secret Ground at the River Bottom, strengthening his five viscera and improving his Jingzhe Art before resting and visiting Qin Hu. Meanwhile, Alien Races plotted to send Longevity Realm assassins to kill him, while Gu Yang remained unaware and ended the chapter sharing a warm reunion with family and friends on Outpost Island.

• Gu Yang cultivated for a month in the Secret Ground at the River Bottom, tempering his five viscera and raising his Jingzhe Art proficiency to 133/1000.
• Alien leaders, alarmed by Gu Yang's talent and Scarlet Domain, agreed to send elite Longevity Realm assassins to ambush him in Cangzhou after he left Canglong Island.
• Gu Yang returned to his bedroom exhausted, slept for a day and night, then went to visit Qin Hu.
• Gu Yang and Qin Hu talked about cultivation and Qin Hu's preparations before deciding to travel together to Outpost Island.
• Gu Yang, Qin Hu, their family, and Chai Yunqing shared a meal, and Gu Yang relaxed among his loved ones.

After visiting his family, Gu Yang returned to the Secret Ground at the River Bottom and focused on Viscera Refining, driven by his Guardian Will. While Alien Race assassins waited outside Canglong Island for a chance to kill him, his Jingzhe Art reached a breakthrough.

• Gu Yang reunited with Gu Yingying and his parents, and resolved to protect his family and the Human Race.
• Gu Yang and Qin Hu left home, then Gu Yang brought Qin Hu to Helian Feng for guidance on breaking through to the Longevity Realm.
• Gu Yang returned to the Secret Ground at the River Bottom and began Viscera Refining with Five Viscera Purification Liquid.
• Alien Race assassins reached the outskirts of Canglong Island and planned to kill Gu Yang if he left the island.
• After ten months of cultivation inside the Secret Ground, Gu Yang's Jingzhe Art reached 999 proficiency and began breaking through.

After a year of cultivation in the secret ground, Gu Yang reached Viscera Refining Perfection and awakened the Heaven and Earth Five Gods talent. He began examining his new abilities and discovered that Vitality Surge had disappeared, apparently absorbed into the new talent.

• Gu Yang broke through the Entry Level of the Jingzhe Art and reached Viscera Refining Perfection, awakening the Five Spirits within his body.
• His physical strength, senses, resilience, speed, and control over his emotions improved as his five viscera transformed.
• The Heaven and Earth Five Gods talent manifested five spirits: a Fire Phoenix, White Dragon, green python, Yellow Lion, and blue Flood Dragon.
• Gu Yang restrained his urge to test his newfound strength so he would not risk damaging the secret ground, and decided to study his new talent instead.
• Gu Yang checked his skills and talents and realized that Vitality Surge had disappeared, apparently absorbed into Heaven and Earth Five Gods.

After mastering the preliminary mysteries of Heaven and Earth Five Gods, Gu Yang left the Secret Ground at the River Bottom and went to test his strength at Canglong Island’s Heavenly Pass. He cleared the first ten floors, proving himself invincible in the Body Realm, and was teleported to the eleventh floor.

• Gu Yang circulated the five spirits in his viscera, linking their powers and gaining a deeper understanding of Heaven and Earth Five Gods.
• After nearly a year of secluded cultivation, Gu Yang returned to River Heart Island, rested, then asked Helian Feng to test his strength.
• Helian Feng brought Gu Yang to the Heavenly Pass and encouraged him to reach the twentieth floor.
• Gu Yang easily passed the first three floors by moving a boulder, crossing a poisonous swamp, and defeating a Phantom Opponent, then continued clearing each trial without failing.
• On the tenth floor, Gu Yang crossed a field of moving blades and survived the Blade Storm by activating fourth-level Azure Dragon Force and fivefold physical strength through Power Burst.
• Gu Yang completed the tenth-floor trial and was teleported to the eleventh floor.

Gu Yang advanced through the Heavenly Pass Tower, clearing its trials until the twentieth floor forced him to fight a Longevity Realm cultivator. Though the opponent wielded Magic Power and nearly overwhelmed him, Gu Yang found an opening and defeated the Black-Robed Cultivator.

• Gu Yang used his Innate Soul Secret Power to find the maze’s hidden exit on the eleventh floor.
• Gu Yang defeated an Alien Race warrior on the twelfth floor and a Ferocious Beast on the thirteenth, then cleared the varied trials on the fourteenth through nineteenth floors.
• On the twentieth floor, Gu Yang recognized that the Black-Robed Cultivator had reached the Longevity Realm and unleashed four times his limit combat power.
• Gu Yang sensed that the cultivator’s Magic Power fueled his swordsmanship and survived their dangerous exchanges while searching for an opening.
• Gu Yang used Gold-Jade Dragon Scales to withstand the cultivator’s sword strike, then struck the source of his energy and defeated him.

Gu Yang defeated the guardians of the twenty-first and twenty-second passes, proving that his combat strength had reached the Longevity Realm despite his lower cultivation. After returning to Outpost Island, he reunited with Gu Yingying and met her friend Xiao Yun.

• Gu Yang defeated the silver-armored guardian at the twenty-first pass, then overcame the White Jade Spirit Rhino at the twenty-second pass despite its gravity control and devastating rays.
• Gu Yang emerged from the Heavenly Pass exhausted, and he told Helian Feng that he had cleared the twenty-second pass, leaving the gathered cultivators astonished.
• Gu Yang discussed the trials with Helian Feng, reaffirmed his determination to cultivate further, and set off for Outpost Island to see his family.
• Gu Yang returned home and found Gu Yingying playing with her friend Xiao Yun, whom she introduced to him.

Gu Yang learned that Gu Yingying had been bullied at the Martial Academy and demanded that the academy investigate and make things right. The academy expelled the bullies, while Gu Yang also demanded apologies from their Lineages, and he told Yingying that they would not bother her again.

• Gu Yang welcomed Xiao Yun to the Gu Residence, then learned from her that students at the Martial Academy had bullied Gu Yingying.
• Gu Yang went to the Martial Academy and asked the Academy Dean to investigate the bullying.
• The Academy Dean identified the children and sent Gu Yang information about their Lineages.
• Gu Yang demanded that the children be expelled and their Lineages apologize at the Gu Residence within three days, or he would visit them himself.
• The Martial Academy approved Gu Yang's demand to expel the children, and Gu Yang told Yingying that they would not bother her again.

After the Li, Liu, and Ji families resisted Gu Yang’s demand for an apology, Helian Feng arrived to support his disciple. The three family heads then came to Gu Yang’s residence and apologized, offering compensation.

• The Li Family Head summoned the Liu and Ji family heads to discuss how to avoid apologizing to Gu Yang, and they agreed to wait and see what he would do.
• Gu Yang reassured Gu Yingying that their family would not be bullied and planned to act if the families failed to apologize within three days.
• Helian Feng arrived at the Gu Family residence, learned what had happened, praised Gu Yang, and offered to confront the families on his behalf.
• After discovering Helian Feng was supporting Gu Yang, the heads of the Liu, Ji, and Li families decided to yield and went to Gu Yang’s residence the next morning.
• The Liu Family Head apologized to Gu Yang and offered compensation, while the Ji and Li family heads also bowed and began apologizing.

Gu Yang settled the conflict with the Ji, Li, and Liu families, then sought a Myriad Life Flower to begin Blood Exchange cultivation. After Helian Feng arranged an introduction, Gu Yang obtained the flower and entered seclusion in the Secret Ground at the River Bottom, while Alien Race cultivators plotted against him.

• Gu Yang made the Ji, Li, and Liu families promise to avoid the Gu Family on Outpost Island, and Helian Feng approved his handling of the dispute.
• Gu Yang searched for a Myriad Life Flower, which he needed to perfect Blood Exchange cultivation using the Jingzhe Art, and offered his Heavenly Clarity Water in exchange.
• Helian Feng wrote Gu Yang a letter of introduction to the Grand Elder of the Ascending Dragon Pavilion, and Gu Yang used the connection to obtain the Myriad Life Flower two days later.
• Gu Yang began his Hundred Day Blood Transformation in the Secret Ground at the River Bottom, using the Phoenix Marrow Vine and the Jingzhe Art to replace his old blood with new blood.
• As Gu Yang cultivated in seclusion, his reputation spread and Longevity Realm cultivators from the Alien Races plotted to kill him before he could grow stronger.

Gu Yang completed the first stage of the Hundred Day Blood Transformation and continued cultivating to strengthen his Vitality Force. As he remained secluded in the Secret Ground at the River Bottom, Alien Race cultivators entered Cangzhou seeking him, while a clash between a Barbarian Race strongman and a Devil Race assassin hinted at rising conflict.

• Gu Yang used spiritual medicines and the Jingzhe Art to replace his old blood, enduring intense pain as his Vitality Force and body grew stronger.
• After thirty days in the Secret Ground at the River Bottom, Gu Yang overcame the first major hurdle of the Hundred Day Blood Transformation and returned to Riverheart Island to continue cultivating.
• Gu Yang began the second stage of the method, driving his Vitality Force to grow as he remained focused on cultivation.
• Alien Race cultivators from neighboring states entered Cangzhou to hunt Gu Yang, unaware that he was secluded on Canglong Island.
• A Barbarian Race strongman and a Devil Race assassin fought in a remote valley; the assassin defeated the strongman, who fled wounded and vowed revenge.

Gu Yang advanced smoothly through the second stage of the Blood Exchange Realm, while Canglong Island secretly used his fame to draw the Barbarian Race and Devil Race into a deadly trap. As the two alien forces wore each other down, Canglong Island's Deacon disciples finally attacked.

• Gu Yang cultivated in the Secret Ground at the River Bottom, transforming his Qi and Blood Divine Dragon and strengthening his Vitality Force and body.
• Canglong Island Elders secretly provoked a clash between Barbarian Race reinforcements and a Devil Race assassination squad near Canglong Island.
• Canglong Island Deacon disciples watched from above and covertly manipulated the battle, helping neither side gain a decisive advantage.
• Barbarian Race strongmen entered their Savage Berserk state, while Devil Race assassins retreated and used guerrilla tactics as casualties mounted.
• A strange fragrance muddled the warriors' minds until both sides were exhausted, and Canglong Island's Deacon-level experts launched attacks from the sky.

Gu Yang's Qi and Blood Divine Dragon completed a major transformation, allowing him to manifest it outside his body, while Qin Hu emerged from seclusion after breaking through into the Longevity Realm. Qin Hu began formalizing his new status at Canglong Island's Deacon Hall.

• Canglong Island's assault ended the battle and forced the remaining Alien Race members in Cangzhou to retreat into hiding.
• Gu Yang's Qi and Blood Divine Dragon grew into a powerful crimson-gold giant, and Gu Yang manifested its phantom outside his body with strength comparable to an ordinary Leakless Realm martial artist.
• Gu Yang confirmed that he had reached the second stage of the Blood Exchange Realm and left the Secret Ground at the River Bottom.
• Qin Hu emerged from seclusion after breaking through into the Longevity Realm's Mana Realm and discovered his new Magic Power, Qi Consumption, and Soul Secret Power.
• Liu Qing congratulated Qin Hu, addressed him as an equal, and took him to the Deacon Hall to complete the formalities.

Gu Yang completed the Hundred Day Blood Transformation, remaking his body and soul as Canglong Island investigated massacres in eastern Cangzhou and traced them to the Lord of Black Nightmare’s power. The chapter ended with Gu Yang awakening to his transformed strength while Qin Wujiu prepared to face the threat.

• Gu Yang entered the Secret Ground at the River Bottom and continued the final stage of his Blood Exchange in seclusion.
• A bloodied Silver Light Kite brought Qin Wujiu news that an unknown force had massacred eastern border cities, leaving bodies without wounds and souls missing.
• Helian Feng led an investigation and found soul fluctuations and Magic Artifact fragments marked with Nightmare Power, pointing to the Lord of Black Nightmare.
• Qin Wujiu ordered Canglong Island to heighten its defenses and sent more experts to the Eastern Territory to investigate the Black Nightmare Lord's Chosen.
• Gu Yang completed the Hundred Day Blood Transformation after returning to Riverheart Island, gaining crimson-gold blood and greatly enhanced body and soul.

Gu Yang’s Blood Qi transformed into a Golden Dragon Egg within his heart, while its power slowly grew. Summoned by Qin Wujiu to investigate the slaughter of cities in Cangzhou’s Eastern Territory, Gu Yang arrived amid the ruins and began using his Heart of Slaughter to search for the killers.

• Gu Yang sensed his Blood Qi gather at his heart and transform into a Golden Dragon Egg that absorbed his essence and strengthened his body.
• Helian Feng told Gu Yang that several Eastern Territory cities had been slaughtered and their residents’ souls extracted, with traces pointing to the Lord of Black Nightmare.
• Gu Yang agreed to join Qin Wujiu’s mission, and Qin ordered him to find the culprit while the group traveled to the Eastern Territory.
• Gu Yang arrived with Qin Wujiu and the others to find ruined cities, scattered corpses, and a land stripped of life.
• Moved by the devastation, Gu Yang awakened his Heart of Slaughter and began searching the ruins for the hidden murderers.

Gu Yang used his Heart of Slaughter to track down the hidden Soul Shadows behind the Eastern Territory Tragedy, while the Canglong Island Deacons wiped out their dens. Lord of Black Nightmare appeared at the final den and fought Qin Wujiu, who defeated his Dharma Image, though Lord of Black Nightmare warned that he would return stronger.

• Gu Yang sensed Lord of Black Nightmare's followers to the east and led Qin Wujiu and the others to their hidden locations.
• Gu Yang exposed a concealed underground den, where the Canglong Island Deacons destroyed the Soul Shadows and Gu Yang managed to defeat one himself.
• Gu Yang guided the Deacons from den to den, and they wiped out the remaining Soul Shadows.
• Lord of Black Nightmare appeared at the final den, and Qin Wujiu stepped forward to confront him.
• Qin Wujiu fought Lord of Black Nightmare's Dharma Image and destroyed it, while Lord of Black Nightmare warned that their next encounter would be different.

Lord of Black Nightmare unleashed an Undead Calamity across Cangzhou’s Eastern Territory, and Gu Yang fought to contain it at the border. He defeated a Longevity Realm undead leader and moved on to clear the remaining undead.

• Lord of Black Nightmare awakened corpses throughout the Eastern Territory, prompting Qin Wujiu to order Helian Feng and the others to contain the undead.
• Gu Yang rushed to the Eastern Territory’s border and attacked the undead before they could enter Cangzhou’s heartland.
• Gu Yang followed a dense dark aura and discovered a towering undead leader with the strength of the Longevity Realm.
• Gu Yang fought the undead leader, dodging its deathly halberd and striking at its armor until its bones began to crack.
• Gu Yang destroyed the undead leader’s head, extinguished its ghostfire, and watched its body collapse as the dark power dissipated.
• Gu Yang cleared nearby ordinary undead, recovered some strength, and headed toward the next location.